[PD] stupid GUI tricks

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

The secret is that I forgot to check in the file, sorry...  the bonus  
is I added another example, you can disable the resizing of your patch:

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On Nov 8, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Phil Stone wrote:

> Care to let me in on the secret?  I was messing with it at lunch, and
> couldn't for the life of me figure out how to change the background
> color of an object.
>
>
> Phil
>
> Dafydd Hughes wrote:
>> Forget it. I was indeed missing what was right in front of me.
>>
>> Dafydd Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Hans
>>>
>>> I'm _dying_to try this, but can't figure out how to access it.  
>>> Are there
>>> new commands for the themer patch? Or am I (like usual) just missing
>>> what's right in front of me?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> dafydd
>>>
>>> Jerome Tuncer wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my opinion, this is not _stupid_ GUI tricks at all...
>>>>
>>>> Being asked on the differences between Pd and Max/MSP, how many  
>>>> times
>>>> have I answered starting with "The GUI in pd isn't really as  
>>>> cool and
>>>> smart as it is in Max/MSP but the DSP capabilities are in the  
>>>> end very
>>>> similar".
>>>>
>>>> My answer to the lack of GUI elegance is very often a salad of
>>>> overlaying [cnv]'s to make patches look more attractive and thus  
>>>> very
>>>> often more readable.
>>>>
>>>> This kind of effort is not stupid, it is great GUI improvement  
>>>> in my
>>>> opinion.
>>>>
>>>> ++
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> J?
>>>>
>>>> Another off-thread thing : I'm really looking forward to the day pd
>>>> will not suffer that much from its GUI implementation : simple  
>>>> slider
>>>> or table visualization/monitoring sometimes being the main  
>>>> reason for
>>>> a ultra complex DSP patch to bo so heavy on the computer/ 
>>>> resources ! (-:
>>>>
>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner a ?crit :
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, all this Tcl/Tk has started to rot my brain, so here are some
>>>>> stupid GUI tricks:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://eds.org/~hans/pdsketch/stupidguitricks.png
>>>>>
>>>>> - change patch background colors in a patch!
>>>>> - make your patches transparent!
>>>>> - use lots of Tcl/Tk config options!
>>>>>
>>>>> Works on my machine :D and hopefully tomorrow's auto-builds...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2007-11-08/
>>>>>
>>>>> (if that link does work, it's not there yet)
>>>>>
>>>>> .hc
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> The arc of history bends towards justice.     - Dr. Martin Luther
>>>>> King, Jr.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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